My mom

I love this photo of my mom, she looks happy here.

Michael

This is Michael, a theatre major who worked in my office as a student. He moved away to NYC and is missed in our office! Trying out some of my new Florabella Collection actions on his photos. Pretty dramatic!

New Actions and Textures

Okay, the one above has Cosmopolitan at 50% a vignette and blur at 70% and Vintage Screen texture at 30%.

Photo above has Cosmopolitan action and Attache warm texture at 30%. Just love the Florabella Collection!

Love these two photos of Michelle done with Milk and Honey and Soft Urban action from the Florabella Collection.

Trying out textures

This photo has sheer haze action on it and then platinum warm texture. You can find these actions and textures at http://florabellacollection.blogspot.com/ they are so cool.

China, cont'

Lounging Buddha.

Another Buddha.

There were a lot of neat doors in China.

Another neat door.

I love this roof, the color is so unusual.

Interesting pot/bowl, I can't tell you what this is, because I never hardly stood around the guide to listen, I was more interested in getting photos. Jeff was the one who listened most of the time. Sometimes the guides were annoyed if you didn't listen, but hey, I wanted the photos.

Crowded and hazy!

Crowds of people.

Always a lot of people where ever we went. And yes, it was hazy most of the time.

This guy set off a photo shooting frenzy! He and his group were staring at us, so I said, "Ni Hao," which is "hello" in Chinese, and he just starting smiling, wanted to have his photo taken with me, had to get photos of Michelle, Jeff, Eric and Julia, and it was just such a frenzy! It was so funny.

Okay...found another tour group shot with red hats.

So many adorable babies in China! Of course I have one, and she's 10 years old now!

I got the shot from behind, Michelle got the shot from in front of this group with their Burberry hats! There were so many different tour groups in China that some of them wore either different colored hats, or shirts or something to make it easier for everyone to stay together.

More photos of China

This was outside where they make the fake Terra Cotta Warriors. I thought it was really interesting.

You could buy these incense and light them, and say a prayer. It was quite neat. My prayer was that we were all safe during our travels in China and that we all arrived home to the States safely! It worked!

Random street shot in Beijing.

Julia with cute panda.

Cute panda statue in Beijing.

Random lantern photos taken in China

These first four photos of lanterns were taken in Xi'an, October 2009.

I loved all the lanterns in China. These next 11 shots were taken in Chengdu, October 2009.

All the lantern photos below were taken in Shanghai, China, November 2009.